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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom has annual brain MRIs at Fairfax radiology to monitor a stable tumor. I have always scheduled them on a Thursday and made her appointment with the prescribing physician on the following Tuesday. Reliably the results posted to the portal the same day of the MRI or the next day. This year (last month), no results, so I called Fairfax radiology and was told that they’ve changed their turnaround time and it is now 5-7 business days. The person I spoke with put a “wet read” request, when I explained that the appointment was coming up and that I did not know about the increased review time when I scheduled. We had the results within an hour. [/quote]

This is interesting that it’s a change in policy. I could swear that I’ve gotten same day reports in the past — late in the day on the day of the scan. Perhaps I have and they have changed things.

I got the report today, on day 5, and honestly it’s very poorly written. It’s adequate in that it lists the measurement of the tumor, but it doesn’t compare those measurements to the prior scan. I had to go pull that report to compare it myself. The person writing the report listed very little detail. It’s hard to switch horses in midstream but this wasn’t a great experience. If I’m going to be doing this every 6 months or year, I might want to go elsewhere.[/quote]

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